April
16, 2012
Federal
Court Judge Susan Illston will hear oral arguments Friday, April 20
in Federal District Court in San Francisco, on cross-motions for
summary judgment brought by the City and County of San Francisco and
golf advocates, on one hand, and conservation organizations on the
other hand, concerning the future of the 80-year-old Sharp Park
municipal golf course.
Built
by the legendary golf architect Alister MacKenzie and opened in 1932,
Sharp Park is owned by San Francisco, but located in the San Mateo
County beachside suburb of Pacifica.
Conservationist
groups, led by the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity and
the Sierra Club, are seeking summary judgment that golf and
maintenance operations at the historic course, are illegally killing
legally-protected frogs. Lawyers for City and County of San
Francisco and for the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance deny the
plaintiffs’ claims, and have filed their own cross-motions for
summary judgment. Judge Illston in November, 2011 denied the
conservation groups’ motion for a preliminary injunction that would
have closed the golf course; among other things, the judge found that
the population of California red-legged frogs at the golf course has
actually increased over the past 20 years. In view of that finding,
the lawyers for the City and the Public Golf Alliance are now arguing
that the plaintiffs lack “standing” to bring suit to close the
course.
Oral
arguments will be conducted in Judge Illston’s courtroom, beginning
at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10 of the United States District Court,
Northern District of California, located at 450 Golden Gate Ave.,
Floor 19, San Francisco.
CONTACT:
BO LINKS, 415-393-8099, bo@slotelaw.com
4 comments:
These enviro wackos are like cockroaches , they never go away.
Terrible that a group would deprive 10's of thousands of golfers the only opportunity around for affordable public golfing over a frog that is not even here naturally.
Species protection is very important, but I think people should come first in a case where so many benefit from recreation with little or no impact.
Know your state rights. Please watch very important video. This is your food the EPA is messing with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiDKWy_oSMw&feature=share
Frogs?
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